"There's a legend around here. A killer buried, but not dead. A curse on Crystal Lake, a death curse. Jason Voorhees' curse. They say he died as a boy, but he keeps coming back. Few have seen him and lived. Some have even tried to stop him. No one can."

Friday the 13th, a Villain-Based Franchise of Slasher Movies (with twelve installments and a thirteenth stumbling through Development Hell), revolves around a hockey-masked wearing, machete-wielding, Psychopathic Manchild Zombie named Jason Voorhees. Local legends say Jason drowned at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the teenage camp counselors, and decades later, the lake and surrounding campgrounds — considered "cursed" by locals — become the setting for a series of mass murders staged on or around Friday the 13th (Jason's birthday).

Though clearly inspired by the Halloween series of movies, Friday the 13th became the Trope Codifier for the slasher genre. The films typically start with a Developing Doomed Characters sequence: a group of teenagers — typically counselors or vacationers — have come to Crystal Lake for various reasons, some of which involve sex and drugs. This group, as well as other minor characters, end up hunted down and killed in a variety of ways — and none of the living members of the group grow wise to this until the Final Girl (and occasionally a Tagalong Kid) discovers the bodies and forces a confrontation with the killer.

While each movie follows the previous one (and sometimes start directly after the previous film), the series doesn't have many recurring elements aside from Jason and the Crystal Lake location. Parts 4, 5, and 6 buck the trend, as they feature the character of Tommy Jarvis. As a boy (in 4), Tommy partially loses his mind after Jason kills his mother (and Tommy kills Jason in turn); when he grows up, Tommy dedicates himself to the destruction of Jason at any cost — but in an ironic twist, Tommy's quest to eradicate Jason inadvertently becomes the catalyst for Jason's resurrection as a zombie.

Jason's infamous hockey mask serves as one half of the Hockey Mask and Chainsaw trope; Jason never actually uses a chainsaw in any of the films, which include:

Friday the 13th (1980) — A mystery killer stalks and murders counselors at Camp Crystal Lake as they attempt to prepare the camp to be reopened. As famously pointed out in the opening of Scream (1996), the killer of the movie is Jason's mother, Pamela Voorhees. She blamed the counselors of the camp's previous incarnation for letting her son drown in the eponymous lake (since they were too busy having sex to watch him), and did not want the camp to reopen. Despite the quality of its sequels, numerous critics and fans consider Friday the 13th an effective horror film.

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) — Counselors at a training camp next to the abandoned Camp Crystal Lake end up murdered. Do you sense a pattern here? Even though this film is dangerously close to basically being a remake of the first one, it features the first occurrence of Jason as the killer; he uses a pillow case to cover his head in this film. He wouldn't put on the hockey mask until...

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) — Jason stalks and kills teenagers sneaking off to party at a rental summer house near Crystal Lake. The police really should look into this. This film became a Series Fauxnale when it performed so well at the box office that the series continued despite the intent of the producers to end the franchise. Final Chapter features Corey Feldman as a young Tommy Jarvis, Crispin Glover as one of the ill-fated teenagers, a lot of gratuitous nudity, arguably the best gore in the series (courtesy of special effects genius Tom Savini), and a ton of Narm Charm. If you want to watch a So Bad, It's Good teen comedy that morphs into an awesome horror flick, you want this movie.

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) — A mystery killer targets teenagers and adults alike at a halfway house for troubled teens located near Crystal Lake — including a teenaged Tommy Jarvis, who has arrived there to recover from his encounter with Jason four years prior. Do you see what they did there with the title? This film features a twist where a man who wanted to avenge the death of his son, which occurred at the halfway house earlier in the film, dons the Jason Voorhees identity (including the hockey mask) to cover his tracks while he kills. The film catches a lot of crap for its lame plot, but it does feature some of the best death performances out of the whole franchise. These teens know how to die! Also has some of the best nudity in the franchise. Despite its high body count, there is noticeably less gore here than in previous films thanks to an upswing of Moral Guardians at the MPAA.

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) — The still traumatised Tommy Jarvis just can't rest, and sets out to destroy even Jason's remains. This movie may involve the biggest case of Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! EVER, since Jason is resurrected by a lightning bolt and heads straight back to his renamed stomping grounds to start killing all over again. An abnormality in that there's no nudity at all, and the reduced gore from the previous film is still in effect. As an aside: out of every film in the franchise, only Jason Lives shows children actually making it to camp for the summer. Presumably they go home early.

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) — Jason stalks and kills teenagers at some houses on the shore of Crystal Lake. A psychic woman named Tina awakens and confronts Jason over the course of the film. A Nightmare on Elm Street makers New Line and Paramount wanted to make what would become Freddy vs. Jason with this installment, but after negotiations between the studios broke down, a girl with Psychic Powers (Tina) became the lead protagonist. Considered by many fans to have suffered the worst violence/gore cuts of all the films in the series.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) — Jason kills teenagers on a boat that leaves from Crystal Lake for about an hour and ends up at New York City, where Jason stalks the survivors through Manhattan for, like, thirty minutes. The filmmakers shot this film mostly in Vancouver, and it shows. Jason gets one of his most memorable kills in this film when he punches the head right off one of his victims. Noted for its Gainax Ending, especially since the writer/director has said it was supposed to be a Grand Finale.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) — The government finally kills Jason, but his evil heart helps to partially resurrect him. Jason, now an evil spirit, jumps from body to body as he seeks out his last living relatives so that he can kill them before they can kill him. Along the way, he kills a bunch of people. This film became anotherSeries Fauxnale, and went completely off the rails thanks to the "body jumping hellspirit" gimmick and an entire supernatural backstory it made up for Jason. In the final scene of the film, the bladed glove of Freddy Krueger drags Jason's hockey mask down to Hell, which set up the crossover film that would come ten years later. Jason, in his own body at least, only shows up twice during the film (at the very beginning and at the very end). The first movie made after New Line acquired the rights to facilitate the long-planned crossover with Freddy Krueger.

Jason X (2002) — Jason Goes To Space. Teenagers (and Space Marines) end up stalked and killed on a spaceship after they pick up Jason's cryogenically frozen body at an abandoned Crystal Lake research facility in the far future. After Jason fights a robot, he becomes a robot and kills more people. Essentially an Affectionate Parody of the franchise, it's also remembered for one of the best death sequences in the series (a woman has her face frozen in liquid nitrogen before Jason smashes it to pieces). David Cronenberg makes a brief appearance. Also, despite its name, Jason X has nothing to do with the Memetic Mutation of pressing X to Jason.

Freddy vs. Jason (2003) — Jason teams up with, then turns on, Freddy Krueger; this leads them to stalk and kill a bunch of teenagers before they fight each other, but in the end, they settle nothing. If you consider the statistics, Jason technically won with over twenty kills to Freddy's one. Word of God also differs on who ultimately won and what the ending of the film means, depending on which "God" you talk to. The film takes place after both Jason Goes To Hell and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare; Jason X and Wes Craven's New Nightmare have no bearing on the film's story, though some fans consider it a prequel of sorts to Jason X.

Friday the 13th (2009) — This film marks the starting point for the Continuity Reboot of the series; if you've read this far, you already know the plot. Essentially a loose remake of the first 3 movies, with the first movie being essentially summarized in 60 seconds of the opening credits. The filmmakers intended to give Jason more personality and emphasize a "menacing survivalist" nature, as Jason had numerous traps and secret passages set up around Crystal Lake. A sequel was in Development Hell, but as Warner gave the rights back to Paramount, it seems to be on its way...but that was cancelled in February 2017 due to the failure of Paramount's latest horror film release, Rings.

His Name was Jason (2009) — An hour and half-long documentary done in the 'house of horrors' style and narrated by Tom Savini. While not exactly bad, its relatively short length meant there wasn't much focus on individual films and once Never Sleep Again (made by the same guy) came out, a demand arouse for a similar documentary about ol' Crystal Lake resident. Which led to...

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013) — Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Very similar to Never Sleep Again, this definitive documentary gives in-depth information on every movie in the franchise (reboot included) and the TV series and touches upon nearly everything Jason-related. It lasts six and half hours, is narrated by Corey Feldman, and interviews as many cast and crew members involved in all of the films as they were possibly able to get in contact with.

Literature

The Camp Crystal Lake Series of young adult novels (all published in 1994):

The Friday the 13th film franchise contains examples of the following tropes:

Alternate Company Equivalent: Jason is undeniably New Line\Paramount's version of Michael Myers. Both are enormous men wearing white masks and blue or grey work clothes, both kill with either their hands or whatever harmful objects they find, both are virtually immortal and have superhuman strength, both of them primarily target teenagers, both of them move extremely slowly when being observed but astoundingly fast when off-camera, and both of them kill on a certain day because of something that happened during their childhoods on that day.

Anachronism Stew: Through Word of God and careful attention to dates and mentions of the passage of time, such as Tommy aging 5 years between 4 and 5, and Jason apparently spending 10 years trapped in the lake between 7 and 8, the series inadvertently took place in the early 2000's in 1988.

Artifact Title: Largely averted; Three quarters of the films are explicitly set on Friday the 13th, with another couple of early entries that occur just prior to or just after the 13th.

Asshole Victim: These are slasher films, so it's to be expected that there's at least one per movie.

When Jason supposedly drowned at Camp Crystal Lake, his mother Pamela killed most of the next counselors to inhabit Camp Crystal Lake years later.

Jason has his own buttons: if you killed his mother in the first film, then may God have mercy on your soul. In addition, if you so much as disrespect his mother in any way (posthumously or not) or make light of his physical deformities, he will fuck you up.

In Jason Goes to Hell, many of his victims insulted him before being killed

And to a lesser extent in JGTH, when Robert said he kidnapped his half-sister's corpse, fucked her daughter and had plans to reveal on TV that Jason kidnapped his half-sister's corpse to fuck it, Jason wasn't happy one bit.

Big Bad: Jason Voorhees in most of the movies, exception being Pamela Voorhees in the first movie and Roy Burns in Part V.

Blue and Orange Morality: Jason himself. He's the antagonist of every movie in which he appears as an adult, but deep down, he's a mama's boy who desperately feels the need to satisfy his mother's wishes. She always was and remains the only person who didn't treat Jason like a freak, an abomination, or both. When the Crystal Lake camp counselors indirectly caused Jason to drown due to their negligence, his mother felt that the right thing was to pay evil unto evil, and Jason is only following her lead because of how close he was to her. All in all, Jason probably feels like he's doing nothing wrong every time he brutally murders someone, since it's all in honor of his mother, who he may view as a good person. Word of God also states that Jason has some semblance of "conventional" morals as well, such as never harming anyone under the age of 13, and not harming animals (presumably, except for sustenance).

Canon Welding: The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis is found in the Voorhees house in Jason Goes to Hell, implying it was used to resurrect Jason after his drowning. The Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash comic confirms this.

Death by Mocking: The practical joker or bitchy Alpha Bitch character has a low chance of survival. The largest exception comes in Part II, where the joker stays at a bar drinking all night, managing to avoid the murders at the campground entirely.

Determinator: Jason, especially in Part VIII where he shoves off all the easy potential victims just to get the remaining protagonists.

Developing Doomed Characters: After a kill or two, the typical FT13 film will then start developing the actual cast, most of whom will die near the end.

Disappeared Dad: Jason's father was originally slated to have a cameo in The Stinger to Part VI, but the scene was dropped, making this a literal example.

This was going to be subverted in Jason X where he was supposed to kill the image of his mother in the holographic display showing Crystal Lake just to show how evil he has become. The idea was scrapped.

In the reboot, Jason refrains from killing one female because she resembles a younger version of his mother. So instead he keeps her as a prisoner in his lair.

He tried killing Tommy in The Final Chapter (though they later tried to justify it by claiming Tommy was just barely older than Jason's no kill cut-off point) and Rennie in a childhood flashback (which may have been a hallucination) in Part VIII though. He might have killed Muffin the dog from Part II, the ending is somewhat confusing.

Not really confusing, unless there are two identical looking dogs with two identical looking collars and spangles wandering in the woods far from town.

On the other hand, in Part VI, he stands in the middle of a cabin filled with running, screaming children and never even takes a swing.

Well, the current comics forgets about the no animals part but this was a cast of ComicallyMissing the Point since it makes Jason a monster rather than a normal (although deformed) child messed up by assholes.

He killed a pregnant woman in Part III (although the lady in question didn't appear pregnant at all, being just two months).

Actually, in Part II it's mentioned that Jason killed wild animals for food.

That was a necessity. He won't kill them out of general sadism like Michael Myers.

In Part VIII, Jason was originally scripted to kick Rennie's dog, but Kane Hodder himself refused to do it on the grounds that Jason wasn't bad enough to hurt animals.

In the "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" comics, Jason actually did spare and protected a physically deformed boy who was being hunted down by a inept drug addicted corrupt cop, who the boy witnessed killing two camp counselors by mistake while trying to shoot Jason.

The Faceless: Subverted. Jason is consistently masked, but in almost all the movies he appears in, he'll lose it for a good look at his face. Said face is not particularly consistent, due to Jason usually taking quite a few nasty hits before dying at the end of a movie, and after his death, Jason spents his time rotting.

Fanservice: The series' overall reputation for nudity is kind of overblown: there's none worth mentioning in parts 1 and 6, and only split-seconds of nudity in 3, 7 and 8. However, 2, 4, 7 and 10 have service-y scenes, and 5, 9 and the remake are practically boobular.

The "virginal" aspect of the character is subverted a bit with Alice, who used weed in one scene and Ginny, who has offscreen sex.

In the sequel, it is implied that Ginny did not have sex. Her boyfriend left a note telling her to beware of bears as a throwback to a joke involving women and their menstrual cycles. The implication is that they did not have sex because she was on her period.

Which still implies she has had sex, which is a slight subversion.

It's also implied that Alice had a relationship with Mr. Christy. Not explicitly a sexual one, but there are a few references to "last night".

In Jason Goes to Hell , Jessica and her love interest Steven completely avert the virginal aspect, seeing as the two had a child together outside of wedlock.

The Final Girl of Friday 6 also subverts this aspect as the more sexually active Megan survives and the virginal Paula dies.

Gainax Ending: All of the films tend to end on a bit of ambiguous insanity that likely happened within characters' heads.

Jason X reveals that part of the reason that Jason is as unstoppable as he is is because he is able to regenerate himself; at one point, Rowan remarks that she had previously subjected Jason to electrocutions, firing squad, gas, and hanging, all to no avail.

It was taken further in the Avatar Press comics, as Jason is shown to be able to immediately grow lost tissue back from a grenade blast.

Iron Butt Monkey: Out of the plethora of horror villains, Jason gets the most abused. which says something.

Joisey: Camp Crystal Lake — and therefore, the bulk of the series — takes place here, which may explain why the big class trip in Part VIII was to New York.

Jump Scare: The movies almost always contain a particular Your Princess Is in Another Castle version at or near the end, involving someone leaping into frame from an unexpected location (usually underwater) and grabbing someone else.

Made of Iron: It's amazing how much punishment Jason has gone through.

First of all, he drowned in Crystal Lake.

Then, he took a machete through his shoulder.

After that, he was hanged.

Shortly after, he took an ax to the head.

Moreover, his own machete is lodged halfway through his head vertically. Though to be fair, this actually did kill him, he just came back.

A quarter of his face gets mauled and his neck snaps by a rotor of a motorboat.

He was shot numerous times.

He was caught inside an explosion.

He drowned in a flood of toxic waste.

Then he got blown apart by mortars.

He got sent to hell by a magical dagger.

ATMOSPHERIC RE-ENTRY

Part VII getting the biggest load with Jason getting shot at and electrocuted. Then he gets several plantpots chucked at him, a roof collapsed on him, a light smashed into his head sending him smashing through a staircase, nails chucked at him and being set on fire and a house exploding around him. EVEN THEN he still chases the final girl only to be drowned again.

Subverted with one particular character in Freddy vs. Jason who takes quite a bit of damage from Jason, before meeting his doom at the hands of someone else

Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The exact circumstances of how Jason survived his childhood drowning. While Part 2 presents it as a case of Never Found the Body, Jason Lives also presents the theory that Jason did indeed drown and has always been a supernatural entity.

Menacing Stroll: Jason has the delightfully paradoxical ability to outrun any of his victims without actually moving faster than a slow lumber. In certain movies it borders on outright teleportation.

My Car Hates Me: Some of the movies has a scene where a car refuses to start, or at least takes long enough to build tension.

Nigh-Invulnerability: Jason progresses into it in Jason X, being given regenerative powers, explaining why he can't be kiled. When he morphs into Über Jason, he becomes Made Of Diamond. In Freddy Vs. Jason, it's outright stated that he's immortal. Jason has the partial justification of being dead to begin with (he drowned as a kid).

Noodle Incident: The actual concrete facts of what really happened to Jason as a child, whether or not he had ever actually drowned at all, and why his mother never realized he was roaming the campgrounds himself all this time is never fully explained by a reliable source in any of the movies. And the writers don't plan to go deeper on it because it's simply easier to roll with it.

Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: Parts IV to VIII have the subtitles The Final Chapter, A New Beginning, Jason Lives, The New Blood and Jason Takes Manhattan. Sequels after Part VIIIdropped the Friday the 13th moniker and were called Jason Something for a while until the remake restored the original title.

This was because Parts 1 to 8 were produced by Paramount, who then sold the franchise, but not the "Friday The 13th" moniker, to New Line Cinema. The next three films were not allowed to use "Friday The 13th," until New Line acquired those rights too, in time for the remake/reboot. Right now, the franchise and title are owned by New Line, who also own the "A Nightmare On Elm Street" franchise, which was the only reason Freddy vs. Jason could have been made at all.

One Steve Limit: Averted between movies. When you have that many installments, you're bound to have a few repeated names. One notable example: The girl who gets killed with gardening shears to the eyes in Part V has the same name as the Final Girl in Part VII, Tina.

In Part VIII, there are even two characters with the same first name (Jim).

Peek-a-Boo Corpse: There's always a few ready to scare the main characters in the climax.

Armed characters will insist on shooting, stabbing, clubbing, or punching Jason over and over, even when it's clearly not doing jack-squat to stop him. Usually he'll just stand there and soak up the blows, then finish them off once they've gotten it out of their system.

It finally works in Jason Goes to Hell and Jason X. But not for long, as in both cases Jason gains new abilities after being shot to hell that allow him to return (becoming a small demonic entity in the former, being revived by malfunctioning technology in the latter).

Slashers Prefer Blondes: Alice is actually a rare subversion and one of the few blonde Final Girls there are. Played straight with her death in the sequel though Final Girl Ginny is also blonde. It's worth nothing that the series mostly subverts this trope, with most of the Final Girls being blonde such as Alice, Ginny, Trish, Pam, Tina, Jessica and Lori. Likewise Final Boy Tommy Jarvis is also blonde, and survives three movies.

Victory by Endurance: Jason uses this in Part VIII, where he faces against a teen boxer in Good Old Fisticuffs. Jason never even throws a punch and soaks up punishment upon punishment until the boxer gets tired. Then Jason decapitates him with one punch.note Though it's pretty clear Jason could have done that right at the start, if he'd wanted to. So less a Victory by Endurance and more sadistic mind games.

Villain-Based Franchise: The franchise is centered around Jason Voorhees. Not entirely however, since in the first film the killer was Pamela Voorhees, and in A New Beginning, the killer is a copy-cat murderer.

Villain Protagonist: Later movies start to treat Jason as this. He's definitely preferable to all the stoned, screwing, generic teenagers...

Part III has Jason opening his mouth for the first time in the whole franchise (as an adult, at least):

Jason: "(gets stabbed in the hand) Ow!"

In Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason lets out a roar oddly enough when he takes his mask off.

Near the end of Jason Goes to Hell Jason possesses a character and pretends to be them for a bit, actually speaking one line.

Jason: Freeze! Get the Hell away from her Ed!

Also in that film, he makes a lot of noise at the beginning as the military guns him down.

White Mask of Doom: Jason's hockey mask in it's early appearances, over the time it becomes more yellowish and worn-out.

Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Freddy vs. Jason reveals that Jason had hydrophobia (a fear of water) as a kid. It doesn't affect him as an adult, but when Freddy gets his claws on his inner child, things get ugly. Part VIII's protagonist also suffers from it, due to a childhood trauma.

The only way any of the movies after the first one would be even possible would be if the audience just accepts that somehow Jason didn't actually drown as a child, ran away to live in the woods for some reason, and everyone just assumes that the missing kid drowned without looking for a body, including his own mother.

An alternative is explored in that Jason's body was posessed by that little black eel monster you see in Jason Goes To Hell. You still need to give your suspension of disbelief two weeks off at Christmas though...

Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Jason is one of the most notable slashers in horror history, but somewhere deep (very deep) inside is a Momma's Boydeeply misses her and feels he has to please her. To varying degrees this was always the case thanks to him often being portrayed as a deformed manchild with mental deficiences and a murdered (even though she deserved it) mother. Being bullied as a child by his fellow campers and dying entirely thanks to the uncaring attitudes of the camp councillors adds to this. Several movies even add that it's not really his fault; it's either a demonic posession or a curse on the lake itself.

The various licensed novels have examples of:

Amusement Park of Doom: The Carnival, the third Tales from the Crystal Lake book, has Jason turning a carnival into a charnel house, with lots of gruesome descriptions of the carnage.

Break the Cutie: Meredith Host from Church of the Divine Psychopath who's bubbly, innocent and just seems perpetually happy, actually managing to befriend the surlyFinal Girl of the book. Things quickly degenerate when she witnesses her parents be butchered in front of her by Jason, with the leader of the mad Jason-worshipping cult they were apart of (thought it was just a regular church group) saying they deserved it; she also winds up dealing with lots of self-hate over being a closet lesbian due to her religious upbringing and near the end winds up almost being raped by one of the aforementioned mad cultists, who had grown steadily more obsessed with her. Though she's saved at the last minute by one the soldiers sent out to track down and kill Jason she still dies quite horribly when Jason randomly shows up seconds later and splits her head open before the soldier can even get a shot at him.

Cat Scare: Church of the Divine Psychopath has a scene where the soldiers hunting Jason in the dark woods are all startled by a raccoon, right before Jason comes out of nowhere and attacks.

Chainsaw Good: Both "Hate-Kill-Repeat" and "The Jason Strain" feature Jason killing people with a buzzsaw and and an electric bone saw, respectively. He even uses an actual chainsaw while possessing a man in "Jason's Curse"

Combat Pragmatist: In the "Tales from Crystal Lake" book "Mother's Day", Jason, while in the body of a hunter, simply shoots an escaping victim with a shotgun. Also in "Hell Lake", he begins his assault on the prison by gunning down several guards with a hunting rifle.

Convenient Miscarriage: Near the end of Hate-Kill-Repeat, the teenaged protagonist, who had earlier discovered she was pregnant, miscarries when Jason nonchalantly punches her in the stomach.

Deadly Game: The Jason Strain has several Condemned Contestants put on a Southern island, with the winner getting a reduced sentence and transfer to a cushy minimum security facility. Along with Jason (a "special guest") the roster includes the framed main character, a mass murderer, a white supremacist, two serial killers, an Angel of Death nurse, a black widow, a serial rapist, a mob boss, and three street gang members.

Every Car Is a Pinto: "Hate-Kill-Repeat" features a character managing to blow up a car simply by shooting its gas tank, in an attempt to stop Jason.

Fog of Doom: All Tales from the Crystal Lake books feature a yellow fog which seems to make everyone feel more negatively, lubricating the lethal intentions of whomever finds Jason's hockey mask as well as the Final Girl.

Halfway Plot Switch: The Jason Strain starts off with Jason on an island where people kill each other to win their freedom. Then, he is kidnapped by scientists, which leads to the novel turning into a story about zombies.

Hollywood Silencer: When the Thawns kill the swingers at the beginning of "Hate-Kill-Repeat", the gun that Penelope Thawn uses is described to make a soft "phut" because of the Suppressor on the gun.

Hope Spot: Near the end of "Carnival Of Maniacs", Jason takes off his mask and puts it on the Jason obsessed rock-star who bought him off the internet. The guy cries with joy, until he realizes that Jason only put it on him to kill him with said mask . Also crosses over to Too Dumb to Live.

Powerful Pick: The second diver that Jason kills in "Hate-Kill-Repeat" goes by way of pickax through his eye.

Improvised Weapon User: Oh, where to begin... While prevalent in all of the novels, Jason really gets creative in "Carnival of Maniacs", in which he uses,at first he kills one of the three goths by shoving the kid's cellphone down his throat. But it's his attack at the music video set that plays this trope to a T. He uses a crowbar,arc light, a cymbal off a drum kit, a keyboard plug, headphone cord, a mic stand, and his own hockey mask to deadly effect.

Jack the Ripoff: In the Tales from the Crystal Lake book Road Trip, a state trooper, driven off the deep end by catching his best friend in bed with his wife, makes plans to kill them, and make it look like Jason's work. He succeeds, but is killed by the real Jason (who is possessing a guy) shortly after.

Jawbreaker: In Hate-Kill-Repeat, Jason impales a man with a flagpole, and then finishes him off by ripping his lower jaw out.

Meganekko: An FBI agent in Hate-Kill-Repeat mentions that his new partner suddenly goes from hot to absolutely adorable when she briefly puts on a pair of reading glasses.

No Zombie Cannibals: The zombies in The Jason Strain never attack each other or Jason, the Zombie Progenitor, since they seem incapable of registering a fellow undead entity. The same seems to be true for Jason, who is completely apathetic towards the zombies he is creating, his acknowledgement of them never going beyond shoving some aside when they get in his way.

Reassigned to Antarctica: In Church of the Divine Psychopath, a bunch of government agents (all them, more or less, screw-ups) are sent to Crystal Lake to hunt down and kill Jason Voorhees, though a few members of the team realize this is probably nothing but a Snipe Hunt and good publicity stunt. But, this being a Friday the 13th story, things inevitably get worse.

Sexy Stewardess: Two are featured at the end of The Jason Strain, and were presumably hired by Caleb Carson simply for their looks. Jason hacks one to death, and stabs the other in the face with a broken bottle.

Walking Wasteland: Jason has this power in Hate-Kill-Repeat. Small animals and plants just drop dead if they stay close to him for too long.

Zombie Apocalypse: In The Jason Strain, Jason is kidnapped by scientists and ends up exposed to an experimental virus which reacts negatively with him, giving him the ability to reanimate his victims as zombies

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